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Pirates Claim Infielder Tommy Field From Angels

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have made a waiver claim, picking up infielder Tommy Field from the Los Angeles Angels on Anaheim. With the addition of Field, the 40-man roster in now full. He has been assigned to AAA Indianapolis.

Field has spent parts of three seasons in the Majors, 2011-12 with the Colorado Rockies and 2013 with the Angels. He was a 24th round pick of the Rockies in 2008. He has played most of his games at shortstop, seeing time at second base and third base as well. In 33 big league games, Field has a .224/.272/.224 slash line.

The 27-year-old has spent this season with Salt Lake City in the Pacific Coast League, where he is hitting .285/.351/.440 in 80 games. It’s important to point out, that while those numbers look good, the PCL is a high offense environment. Field’s .791 OPS ranks him sixth on the team among regulars. He has played all three infield positions this season. In 2011, Baseball America named him the Rockies top defensive minor league infielder.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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